Husky women's crew with historic victory
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DON'T GENDER ME, SHITLORDS
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Shitlords is fucking AWESOME!
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not mine. that's a /b/ thang.Swaye said:Shitlords is fucking AWESOME!
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I got mmCokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
I should have said since he came back to the women's program. My bad.whlinder said:
Maybe I am dense but when did he retire?CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:Ernst sucked ever since he came out of retirement.
http://www.usrowing.org/news/2017/02/03/new-high-performance-committee-will-focus-podium-success/
Cool story, but alas, there’s more to it than the men being loathsome to go streaking.RavennaDawg said:Because those brave young women from Yale ran naked into the administration office, women's crew is an NCAA sport. Since no male rowers wanted to streak, men's crew is not an NCAA sport.
Seriously.
Men’s Rowing is basically controlled by the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC). The EARC is mainly Ivy schools, plus a few other that "think" and “care” about Men’s Rowing- e.g., Wisconsin and Navy. Outside of the EARC programs, only Cal and Washington really care enough about Men’s Rowing to compete for NT’s and these two schools have pretty much dominated the sport for the past 20 years (except for a few years when those rich, preppy, Mark Zuckerberg haters were really good). The Eastern schools have never really felt there’s any benefit to going the NCAA route for the men, and keep in mind Ivy schools don’t even have “athletic” scholarships, rather, they have academic based financial aid. In terms of Cal and Washington, they have a number of full-ride scholarships that are privately endowed- i.e., they don’t affect Title IX numbers. Furthermore, it’s not like a bunch of schools on the West Coast are going to add men’s crew as a Varsity Sport (currently only UW, OSU, CAL and STAN have varsity programs on the west side) if it became NCAA. For women, however, it’s the ideal title IX equalizer, hence the NCAA benefit.
Speaking people not caring about rowing - the average college sports fan does not - but there are enough rich, old white dudes that do. What other non-revenue sport at Washington would be to offer full ride scholarships w/o funding for this from the athletic department budget?
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WoodAZDuck said:DON'T GENDER ME, SHITLORDS
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These guys don't need no stinkin' scholarships.
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I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one. -
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@creepycoug I did not know you were so passionate about UW rowing as much as Miami football lolcreepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
